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The crowd around him pounded with energy, he felt it rolling off of everything and it left the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end.

A year ago being in a place like this would have been absolute torture, he would have been utterly unstable and the night would have ended with countless people dead.

The fact that he was standing there, looking out over the crowd, not with the desire to kill but the desire to join in was a testament to the profound effect living with caring and loving people had on someone as broken as he was.

He leaned over the bar to order a drink, even managing to get a smile from the bartender.

His eyes still portrayed his past and he didn't know if that would ever fade but he looked completely different now, for lack of a better word, he looked and felt normal.

His nose twitched as a dark skinned man headed toward the bar and got a drink, he could smell the blood in it and he licked his lips slowly.

His mouth watered a little and he leaned over the bar again, asking the same bartender for what ever that man had just ordered.

The man looked him up and down then nodded and fetched him one, for those who knew about the supernatural world it was obvious what he was.

His gaze followed the glinting fabric of the previous man's netted shirt.

He was enthralled by it, at least, he thought it was the shirt that caught his attention, truth be told he fell a pull toward that man, not that he could explain why. Obviously he was quite attractive but there was something else about him that he couldn't quite explain.

Zuri immediately preyed on a young man happily dancing with his own drink in hand.

Pressed against the man's back and whispering dirty nothings in his ear, Zuri found it ridiculously easy to rile the boy up. Soon the man was grinding back against him eagerly.

That was, of course, until another entered the scene. A woman. The man's girlfriend.

After a short conversation (heated between the man and his girlfriend, though Zuri kept his side quiet and calm) Zuri made his way back to the bar, put out after almost getting a guy to follow him to the bathrooms for a quick Double F.

"You win some, you lose some," he sighed, leaning back against the bar. It was a good idea to stay away from the dancefloor for a few minutes so things didn't kick off.

He was a little bummed that he hadn't gotten the guy into the bathroom with him. He was glad, however, that he hadn't been the one to get the screaming from the girlfriend.

"Think she'll take it well if I go back and suggest a threesome?" the man asked with a crooked grin.

Zuri's brow hiked up a little as his eyes finally met the younger Vampires. Wow, now that wild swirling mess of beast and man was not something that he had expected to see outside of the wilds.

With a flick of his wrist that sent a portion of his hair sweeping over his shoulder and glass beads clicking together, Zuri blew a kiss. "It's my sparkling personality and dashing good looks, hooka. I swear by them."

Evidently not. Oh well. He could take a lost battle. He'd just have to look for someone else to play with when she had cooled down enough not to charge him like an angry bull if she caught sight of him on the dancefloor again.

To his credit, Zuri did try to keep a straight face at the boy's confused comment.

It didn't work, but he tried. First Zuri gave a little chuckle, but soon that chuckle became a belly laugh.

When his chin was grip an unpleasant shudder ran through him and his fangs clicked into place defensively, the four of them peeked out from behind his pale lips as he leaned back, unable to move further away because of the bodies bumping into him from each side.

He gave a whine and pressed his hands to the man's chest, trying to hold him back as he turned his head away from him, intimidated by him trying to force himself onto him.

It was at that point that Zuri swooped in like a microbraid wearing drag queen superhero.

He slid an arm around Ray and pulled the younger Vampire back against his chest.

"You put that motherfuckin' cocked leg back on the floor before you piss on my boy." He pointed down at the floor with his free hand as the hand resting on Ray's hip stroked in gentle comforting movements.

"Zuri. I didn't know Queens came down to mingle with the common people."

The Egyptian snorted loudly. "Common people I can do, honey pie. It's the slums I stay away from." Zuri's lips curled up into a saccharine smile, just to add to the insult.

Rayner's eyes widened as the man spoke, his body jolting a little when as arm slid around him and pulled him back though he relaxed a little as he looked back and saw the elder Vampire behind him, a small smile gracing his lips as the man defended him.

His own hand graced over Zuri's as it stroked his hip, the small gesture made him feel much safer.

"Thank you."

He muttered as he was steered away from the hulk of a man and toward the exit, that would have gotten nasty if he hadn't been saved, he had no intention of letting himself be taken by force but at the same time he didn't think he could over power the other man, no matter how much he bit at him.

Once they were out in the night air he relaxed a lot more, being around that many people was a bit overwhelming.

He perked up at the mention of a strip club.

"Zo?"

He asked hopefully, he knew Dario worked there and hopefully he could see the man, if not at least he was in a place that was much safer for him when the man was working there, no one would harass him with Dario around.